surpise. yesterday (i swear it's because i was distracted by pain) i screwed up a partition rearrangement to add another OS (98SE) to my multi-boot. i'm now stuck with a few apparently unbootable partitions. but i whipped out my trusty live-cd's, DSL and Puppy and voila, net ready pc. i've mounted my partitions, all are still present with their data so i can do some backups if i can't figure the b***h out.